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There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.
- James May
#Great
#Metal
#Poetry
#Trying
#Work
The shirt thing just started one day when I bought one with a really interesting pattern, and people laughed at it, so I thought, 'I'll keep buying daft shirts with flowers on.'
- James May
#Day
#Interesting
#One Day
#People
#Shirt
I find the history of toys very interesting on an academic level - they're very much products of their time, just like paintings and furniture tell us about their time.
- James May
#Find
#Furniture
#History
#Time
#Toys
Deep down inside, I am lazy.
- James May
#Deep
#Down
#I Am
#Inside
#Lazy
I was a car journalist when I started on 'Top Gear.' It was all about cars. And then it all spun out of all control, and we turned into figures of ridicule to keep the viewers happy. It's a fair deal, I suppose.
- James May
#Car
#Control
#Deal
#Fair
#Happy
I'm not beholden to anyone. I'm not waiting for a pension or a carriage clock.
- James May
#Carriage
#Clock
#Pension
#Waiting
The three of us may be reunited on screen, we may go our separate ways, or we may disappear from the television altogether and each assume a place, alone, in the corner of a pub where any unsuspecting passing drinker who strays into an exclusion zone studiously avoided by the locals will be subjected to a predictable 'I used to be on TV' routine.
- James May
#Alone
#Place
#Routine
#Television
#Three
I'm not very ambitious, sorry... I don't get up and think, 'Today, I shall achieve greatness.' It's more, 'Today I might have Marmite on my toast.'
- James May
#Achieve
#Greatness
#More
#Sorry
#Today
The decline of practical skills, some of them very day-to-day, among a generation of British men is very worrying. They can't put up a shelf, wire a plug, countersink a screw, iron a shirt. They believe it's endearing and cute to be useless, whereas I think it's boring, and everyone's getting sick of it.
- James May
#Believe
#Boring
#Cute
#Generation
#Men
Men think that not being able to wire a plug somehow makes them more creative or intellectual. It just makes them morons.
- James May
#Being
#Intellectual
#Men
#More
#Morons
I think the astute viewer can recognise I am the proper bloke, because I have a toolbox and can put things back together, and I can quote W. B. Yeats and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
- James May
#Back
#I Am
#I Can
#Lord
#Together
I think there are bigger problems in the world than Jeremy Clarkson.
- James May
#Bigger
#I Think
#Problems
#Think
#World
I've never quite trusted water; I don't think it's entirely healthy.
- James May
#Healthy
#Never
#Quite
#Think
#Water
Me, I'm a lesbian: I find women fascinating.
- James May
#Fascinating
#Find
#Me
#Women
'Normal bloke' is my style.
- James May
#Bloke
#Normal
#Style
The greatest luxury now in being reasonably well-off - overlooking the Ferrari and the aeroplane - is that I can always go for a curry without worrying if I can afford it.
- James May
#Always
#Go
#I Can
#Luxury
#Now
I'm a great believer in the principle of try it and work it out. If a gadget is designed well, you can easily work out how to use it. But if you can't, it isn't shameful to read the instructions.
- James May
#Great
#Principle
#Try
#Well
#Work
I don't want Jeremy Clarkson anywhere near my shed or my toolbox or my piano. He's interested in fashionable restaurants and celebrity gossip - I'm not interested in those.
- James May
#Celebrity
#Gossip
#Not Interested
#Piano
When I get into a car - any car - I still find it amazing that I'm allowed to drive it away.
- James May
#Amazing
#Car
#Drive
#Find
#Still
I've never thought about marriage or children.
- James May
#About
#Children
#Marriage
#Never
A car isn't a classic just because it's old. To be a classic, a car has to tell us something of its time.
- James May
#Car
#Just Because
#Old
#Time
#Us
Someone once told me that I was 12 inside. The only thing 12-year-olds crave is more Lego. Lego is fun; it's therapeutic. It's a beautiful sensation when you click the pieces together.
- James May
#Beautiful
#Fun
#Lego
#Me
#Together
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